Re: [gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

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On Friday 23 February 2007 17:40, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> I want to use screen, but my emacs-afflicted fingers automatically type
> "control-a" to go to the beginning of the line in my shell - which is
> somewhat unfortunate for screen.

Amen.  Luckily I'm not an emacs user, so I quickly broke myself of that 
bash 
habit.  (I happily hit home or esc,^ now.)

> I assume from the manual that I can re-bind keys to avoid this
> problem... my first guess was to bung "bind '^a'" into my .screenrc -
> but that doesn't do the trick.  Does anyone here have the correct
> incantation?

Pull up the screen.info file, and goto the 'Command Character' node.

I'm thinking you probably want to mess with the escape or defescape 
commands, 
probably throwing them into your screenrc or somesuch.

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